editor's note

March and April every year are known as the "three gold and four silver". Throughout the country, the peak period of spring talent recruitment has arrived. What are the new trends in this spring recruitment market? This issue of "Think Tank·Data" will provide readers with an inventory of the hot spots in the spring recruitment market one month after the Spring Festival this year.

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■中国经济时报记者Wang Lijuan

Employment affects the lives of thousands of households and is also related to the overall economic and social development. The word "employment" was mentioned 26 times in this year's Government Work Report. As the number of college graduates in 2024 reaches a new high, the pressure on total employment this year still exists. However, the recovery of the economy has brought positive factors to stabilizing employment. Entering March, the popularity of spring moves continues to rise. Judging from the situation of the recruitment market this spring, the job market has started well, with enterprises starting to resume production, migrant workers returning to work in a stable and orderly manner, and job-seeking and recruitment activity has increased.

Service consumption, high-end manufacturing, and new energy are the three hot areas in the spring recruitment market one month after the Spring Festival this year. At present, the consumption structure of domestic residents is changing, service consumption is more than commodity consumption, and related industries provide more jobs; with the transition from Made in China to Intelligent Manufacturing in China, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing are widely used. With the application, the demand for talents in the technology industry and related fields continues to be strong, and the demand for recruitment in high-end manufacturing and new energy fields has also remained stable.

China's economic development and industrial transformation and upgrading have led to a growing demand for skilled blue-collar talents in manufacturing, service and other fields. Under the guidance of macro policies, emerging fields such as high-end manufacturing, new energy, and biomedicine are developing vigorously, and the potential of the industry is optimistic, thus attracting job seekers to compete to deliver, and the competition for job hunting is fierce.

These new trends in the spring recruitment market not only reflect the changes in China's economy's demand for talents during the process of shifting gears and growth, but also show that China's employment situation is showing a diversified and professional development trend. Therefore, although employment still faces certain challenges, as long as job seekers can accurately position their own advantages, actively improve their skills to adapt to market demand, and have the courage to seize opportunities in emerging industries, they are still expected to find their own place in the highly competitive job market. Governments, enterprises and educational institutions should also work together to help job seekers make a smooth transition through policy guidance, skills training, school-enterprise docking, etc., and jointly create a dynamic and promising employment future.